heightened

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heightened - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Heighten \Height"en\ (h[imac]t"'n), v. t. [Written also
     highten.] [imp. & p. p. Heightened; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Heightening.]
     1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
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     2. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to
        aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; --
        used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to
        heighten a flavor or a tint. "To heighten our confusion."
        --Addison.
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              An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to
              the miraculous.                       --Hawthorne.
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heightened - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "heightened":
     accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, amplified, annoyed,
     augmented, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, deepened,
     deliberately provoked, elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged,
     exacerbated, exasperated, expanded, extended, heated up, hiked,
     hotted up, increased, inflated, intensified, irritated, jazzed up,
     magnified, multiplied, proliferated, provoked, raised, reinforced,
     soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened,
     widened, worse, worsened